Baseball notebook: Division-leading Indians continue to roll

With just two weeks to go in the regular season, the most complete team in the Ches-Mont league looks to be the Unionville Indians. Coach Mike McGee’s squad is 12-1 and running away with the American Division behind the bat and arm of Kyle Fries and Kyle Langerhans.

Unionville, if it continues to win (and it should), looks like a top seed in the upcoming Class AAAA District 1 playoffs. A first-round bye is almost assured, and the Indians may make the Class AAAA PIAA tournament for the first time in school history. McGee has done a great job in his two years at the Indians’ helm, because the Unionville program was stuck in neutral for a while.

Chas McCormick and his twin brother,Jason continue to carry the Henderson Warriors. Every time it seems the Warriors need a big hit or a good pitching performance, the McCormicks always seem to deliver. Henderson also is getting production throughout the lineup and is currently just one game behind preseason favorite Coatesville in the National Division.

Coatesville’s Brian Brown is the best pitcher in the area, and arguably the best in southeastern Pennsylvania, along with Boyertown’s A.J. Godecki. Last Wednesday night, Brown threw 126 pitches and struck out 16 Downingtown East batters in nine innings, all with a temperature of over 101. Brown is a fierce competitor, and he is the main reason no one wants to play Coatesville in the district playoffs.

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Good to see one of the good guys do well, and that is Oxford coach John Rozich, whose Hornets now have won two Ches-Mont games after Friday’s 5-4 victory over Sun Valley. Rozich has the Oxford program on the rise, and Kyle Price is hitting over .600 for the Hornets, who are not an easy win anymore.

Malvern Prep looks like they are going to make the Inter-Ac a shamble as they continue to roll through the league with a 5-0 record. Malvern has the most potent offense in the league and is getting good pitching again.

Even after losing Monmouth University-bound Brad Rhoades to a torn labrum early in the season, the West Chester East Vikings continue to be a major player in the Ches-Mont National race. This might be Vikings boss Dean Owens’ best coaching job, which says a lot after the success Owens has had.

Coatesville coach Hal Ziegler said before the Henderson game Friday that he has never seen a player throw a ball better on the run than Emmett Hunt. Imagine how good a bseball player Hunt would be if he played only that sport. And anyone who wants to see Hunt throw a ball on the run should get over to Downingtown’s Kottmeyer Stadium Sunday at 2 p.m. to see the finest football seniors in the state in the East vs. West All-Star Classic.